Tracing the Life of an HTTP Request:

The deep permeation of the World Wide Web into the life of the common man has lent itself to a variety of uses, most notably as a backbone for business-to-consumer (B2C) communication, creating a new business model called e-commerce. This article traces the lifetime of an HTTP request from its inception inside a Web browser to its interception by IIS 6.0, its processing by ASP.NET 1.1, and an HTTP response being sent back to the browser.

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